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Lionel Edmund Rose MBE (21 June 1948 – 8 May 2011) was an Australian bantamweight boxer the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.Born and raised at Jacksons Track in Victoria Australia as well as the town of Warragul Rose grew up in hardship and learned to box from his father. Roy (his father) was a skilled fighter at local house shows. Later at the age of 10 Rose was given a pair of gloves by his teacher Ian Hawkins (who observed him shadow boxing).
